EastBay RC Celebrates the Nobel Prize!

Congratulations to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, andShuji Nakamura for getting this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.

“for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting
diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”

Coincidentally a roll of blue LED strip lights happened to arrive on this very day.  Gentlemen, the night-flying RC part of the world salutes you!

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2014/press.html

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Nice Foamy LED Mounting

 Not sure where I ran across these, but they've been sitting on my desktop for a while.  A nice simple method of mounting LEDs with skewers and hot glue.






This is a neat idea... the LED shines forward, giving you a light for orientation at the same time that it lights up the propeller.






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LED Lights for EPP Yak55

bhoov128@rcgroups has some good notes on how he mounted SMD LED's on his EPP Yak 55.  He hot glued them to bamboo skewers and connected them with magnet wire.  Lights are aimed to illuminate the plane; blue on the bottom, white on top.  Two white lights mounted on the front shine through and illuminate the prop.

Somebody posted that Leading LEDs is a good source.








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